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TO ALL WHOM IT 'MAY CONCERN:

- Be it known that I, D. C. McNEI-L, of De Witt, in the county of Clinton, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and improved Folding Stove and Baker; and I do hereby declare thatthe following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others. skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved method of constructing stoves, whereby they are rendered more portable and Aeasier of transportation, the stove beingespecially intended for camp use, for soldiers, trappers, and emigrants; and the invention consists in constructingthe stove and the baker so that their sides may be folded together dat, occupying little more space, when packed for transportation, thanwould be occupied by the bare plates laid flatly on each other.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of the. sto being through the line y y of iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of fig. 1, through the line :v x.'

* Figure 3 is an end view of the oven or reflector, showing the manner. of its construction.

Figure 4 is a. view of the grate inside the oven, for the support of the baking-pans.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the body of the stove, which 4is formedof vertical plates, which arev hinged together on rods at the angles, as seen at B B.

C represents the rods atV theangles. These rods extend down, as seen at at a, fig.. 2, which, when putting the stove together, are forced intothe ground, the surface of the earthforming the bottom on which to` build the re.- v

D iS the door for the introduction of the fuel.

F is the oven, which in this connection may be called a radiator. v It is heated fromthe side plate o f the stove, or bytheheat which passes through the plate E, asseen in iig. 2.v

This oven is formed in a similar manner to the stove itself, the sides being hinged to rods C at the angles, which rods extend beyond the upper plate or top,l.and pass through the side lof the stove when in use, as seen at c. T hecorner rods of both the oven and the stove extend from the plates, so that the top plate of the stove G and the back plate of the oven H are slipped over them, as seen in the drawing; These plates are readily .detached when the stove and ovenare to be folded up for transportation.

J is the grate for the oven, which is placed as seen in ig.' 2, and also inthe sectional portion of iig. 1, ywhere it is seen supporting the baking-pans K. l

L represents the chimney.

m is a collar on the top plateof the stove, which the-chimney or pipe L sets over in the usual manner.

The chimney L is formed of'plates jointed to rods at the angles, the same as the body of the stove and `the oven, s'o that, when'detaehed from the stove, it will fold down flat, like the other parts.

The ends of the oven are formed of two plates, which are jointed together in the middle, which allows the oven to bc folded in less space than it otherwise would be.

'n represents rings at each end of the oven, for convenience in handling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as'new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The folding stove, when its sides are hinged together at the angles by the vertical'rods C, extending belowthestove at a, for the purpose of beinginserted into the ground, whereby the ground is made to form the bottom of the stove,upon which thc fire is built, as herein shown and described.

2. In combination with the folding stove, having the open bottom, the chimney'L, when composed of scctions hinged together, and adapted to fold vdown upon the top/plate G, as herein shown and described.

3. The radiating. oven F, constructed as described, its top and sides hinged together at the angles, and secured tothe back H, and to theback plate of the stove, by the extended pintles of the hinges Gic, as herein described, for the'purpose specified. Y 4

The above specification of my nvention signed by me, this-7th day of September, 1867.

' D. C. McNEIL.

v e, partly in section, with the baker attached, the section Witnesses:

S. H. SHOEMAKER, DANL LANGAN. 

